Pets
2016
Installation. Sculpture (concrete, silicone, wood, artificial fur), metal.
Exhibition view Pets.
2016.
2.04 gallery, St. Petersburg
Object from the project Pets.
2016.
Wood, faux fur.
27х14х11 cm (10x5,5x4,3 in)
32х12х12 cm (12,5x4,7x4,7 in)
Object from the project Pets.
2016.
Wood, faux fur
33х18х16 cm (13x7x6 in)
Object from the project Pets.
2016.
Wood, faux fur
27х22х20 cm (10,6x8,6x7,8 in)
Object from the project Pets.
2016.
Concrete, silicone
24×13×11 cm (9,4x5x4,3 in)
Object from the project Pets.
2016.
Concrete, silicone
40х14х13cm (15,7x5,5x5 in)
Object from the project Pets.
2016.
Concrete
53×19×20 cm (20,8x7,4x7,8 in)
Pets
The ‘Pets’ series refers to the mechanics of the complicated relationship between people and their pets, analyses their role in each other’s life and proposes new and unusual images of pets. In their appearance we can recognise elements taken from the world of animals. But we face the ‘others’, almost alien creatures. Working with one of the most traditional human-nonhuman conventions, the artist is looking for a new meaning and new combinations in this concept.
Projects
- Unfinished project
- Shaving of the Christ
- Slowly Aging Children
- On the tip of the tongue
- In the Valley
- Suburbia
- Karate poetry
- My space 2.0
- My green crocodile
- Preparation of the transformer-bride
- Tell me, O Muse...
- Dasia's fairy tales
- Notes from the Morder
- Phonatory bands
- Pets
- My space
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Q. How do we understand the complicated relationships between humans and their pets?
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